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		<author email="nicko at apache dot org">Nicko Cadell</author>
		<title>log4net Project History</title>
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			<p>
				The log4net project was started by <a href="http://www.neoworks.com">NeoWorks Limited</a> 
				in June 2001. It was created as an internal project within Neoworks to port the Apache 
				log4j code base to the Microsoft .NET Framework. The code base was initially branched 
				from a pre-alpha log4j 1.2.
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				In July 2001 a <a href="http://sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</a> project was started
				and log4net was published under the Apache Software License. The first public release of
				log4net was made in September 2001. A further 10 releases were made on the sourceforge
				site.
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				In December 2003 the Apache Logging Services project was created. 
				In February 2004 log4net was donated by Neoworks to the Apache Software Foundation
				to become a member of the Logging Services project. 
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				The log4net project is currently incubating at Apache. The incubation project
				mentor is Mark Womack.
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